Title: Victory in Victory Square
Fandom: XCOM 2
Rating: General
Length: 100 words
Content notes: Player characters on an earth ruled by aliens. Part of a series of drabbles based on my favourite randomly-supplied XCOM soldiers.
Summary: Sometimes characters (*cough*or players*cough*) celebrate prematurely...


Weeks they'd been chasing her without success, but finally the Berserker Queen was cornered in Victory Square. Ricardo squeezed the trigger on his rifle and she fell. Statues toppled with her and half of what used to be a civic building crumbled around the enormous corpse.

"That's my boy!" Shane yelled, firing his machine gun into the air. "Take that, alien scum!"

There was a hiss behind him, and he froze.

Ricardo dropped his empty rifle and drew his pistol, shaking his head.

"Might want to finish the mission before you celebrate, sweetheart."